That Brilliant Joke Teller Sam Brownback

No fixing stupid, No cure for stubborn… I do own a suit. I am an entertainer. I can say things that aren’t true. In fact in my business I’m not really required to tell the truth. I’m in the business of amusement. If you stand up and raise your hand and volunteer to fly an […]

Bachelorhood as Infrastructure

To Have Anything You Must Give Her Everything “You peeling down into your French lingerie and your slick high-heeled cowgirl boots, I swear on a stack of Gideon’s, you don’t want a fair fight… Trying to ensnare me in my own weaknesses…. I know your kind; you’ll have nothing and nobody to blame but […]

Slimeballing, Suckerpunching Misdirection Games

The Butt of a Bad Joke Jack Welsh coined the phrase “shareholder value.” Two pieces of the puzzle tilted in capitals favor from this four decade ago event. First, was an emphasis upon the share price. The second was the compensation packages for management. Washington was not an innocent bystander. Tax cuts, trade policy, regulation […]

Kissing George Wallace at a Petting Party

Fire the Boat Up… We’re Coming For Them… It is all connected. Let’s review. Climate change is real and carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere is the cause of the problem. Income inequality is real and uber wealthy titans of industry and finance have rigged capitalism and now literally spray money to regulators and politicians […]

Sleeping with the Spineless Devil

Sleeping with a handsome little devil…

Richard Pryor- A Funny Motherf…..ker

“Of course conventional demolition work didn’t pay nearly as good as nuclear annihilation, but Fletcher rightly calculated that there wouldn’t be much use for money in a world that no longer existed.” The street act is all cocktail. It is a mixologist mash-up with monologist. The lone wolf soloist jerking the innocent and unsuspecting into […]

Breathing is Now a Privilege… Hands Up Mother….

We are no longer a freedom loving country. We are something else now. “Corporations are people my friends, and they are pissed off.” Our counterinsurgency has gone domestic. We are the enemy now. The police are dangerous. If you are arrested and it doesn’t go so well that is too bad. Our own security is […]

Mental Rattlesnakes and Ego Implants

“I go see Keaton in a comedy and I end up in a shoot out with my immortality…”

Beaujolais Nouveau

Nothing welcomes this traveler home better than autumns release of this years newest youngest wine… Beaujolais. It is a chance to check on whether this last summer was as delicious as I remember. Beaujolais Nouveau was lost on me until November 2001. That year I drank from a cask of Beaujolais at Nizza La Bella […]

Long Hops and Short Stops

“My flight down to Cancun was a little bumpy, but the water landing was very smooth. By the time I swam to shore and got out of my wet clothes and hat a shot of tequila it was like wow… here I am.” The shift is on. I return to San Francisco tomorrow. I have […]